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UN Secretary-General António Guterres sent a video message to the Nepalese government on Friday, warning that the Himalayan glaciers are rapidly melting and urging immediate action. Guterres addressed the issue that despite Nepal producing a negligible amount of emissions in comparison to other countries, they are feeling the effects of the increased temperatures. Nepal has seen [...]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged China to free the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choki Nyima, and his parents, who were removed from public view in 1995 and have remained missing ever since. As the 30th anniversary of their disappearance approaches on Saturday, human rights advocates have intensified pressure on Beijing to end decades of [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor expressed concern Wednesday over the conviction of journalist Rukhshona Khakimova, calling on the government of Tajikistan to release her and grant a fair retrial. Lawlor said: “Rukhshona Khakimova’s trial appears to have fallen short of international fair trial standards.” The special rapporteur argued [...]

In a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the re-elected Labour government to leverage its key foreign policies to strengthen human rights globally. HRW outlined several actions in the letter that the Australian government should take under four main areas of its foreign policy to promote human [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged newly-elected Pope Leo XIV to initiate an immediate review of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with the Chinese government. The Vatican-China agreement was signed between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China in 2018, aiming to bridge decades of division between state-sanctioned churches and underground Catholic communities [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged US Congress on Monday to restore Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur service to ensure journalists can continue reporting in one of China’s most isolated regions. RSF noted that the announcement to close the Uyghur language service of Radio Free Asia (RFA) will have a long-lasting impact on the reporting of atrocities [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday strongly condemned the 11-hour detention and potential prosecution of two journalists in Macao, calling the move a “disturbing escalation” in the ongoing suppression of independent journalism in China’s special administrative region. According to the news outlet All About Macau, the two reporters were detained for 11 hours [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a recent law graduate of the University Law College, University of the Punjab, and is currently practicing in the courts of Pakistan.   A tragic militant attack in the Baisaran Valley near [...]

The Vietnamese government has significantly escalated its suppression of dissent, increasingly punishing individuals, including ordinary citizens, for peacefully expressing concerns about state policies and public officials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released today. Titled “We’ll All Be Arrested Soon’: Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam’s ‘Infringing of State Interests’ Law,” the report highlights the [...]

In this interview, an anonymous Palestinian legal and political science scholar speaks with Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas about his life in Gaza under Israeli occupation before and after October 7, 2023, his perspective on the Western world’s response to Palestinian suffering, and what he wishes the world knew about Gaza. What was your life [...]